But thank you for stopping by on what has been a disappointing day for Australia, who conceded the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Thank you also for your company throughout this series, which has been claimed 2-1 by India. Want more? Here is the latest from the ground thanks to Adam Collins:

India knock off runs to secure victory and claim series win over Australia

And he’s donned his whites! Look out John Terry! “Unbelievable,” he says. “I think this is our best series win so far. The Australian team gave us a fight throughout the series. The way the guys kept bouncing back showed the spirit of this team. The maturity and the responsibility shown by all of the guys was very pleasing.”

“The changes we made in our fitness regimes has really paid off. Guys have been able to sustain their performances throughout the season.” Kohli is particularly pleased that his side has hauled itself from seventh in the rankings to first.

On his shoulder injury: “It’s still a few weeks to go before I’ll be 100% on field. I’ll just have to take it in my stride and then move forward.”

Kohli then moves to the presentation area and accepts the Border-Gavaskar Trophy from Sunil Gavaskar. That’ll be about it from Dharamsala.

He pays particular tribute to debutant spinner Kuldeep Yadav. “He has an x factor in him. We all had confidence in him. I knew if he got one wicket he’d get in top, and the other bowlers kept up the pressure at the other end.”

Of his delightful cameo innings he says this: “I was just thinking about when we lost in Sri Lanka, chasing 130-odd, so I just wanted to take the moment forward. I just had to take my chances. Credit to Australia. They played some good cricket.”

Man of the series: Steve Smith...or Ravindra Jadeja?

No huge surprises there, at least not at first. Smith made 499 runs for the series, including three centuries, and deserves his trophy and cheque. But then Jadeja gets the “man of the series” award, so I’m really not sure what they’ve given Smith.

Update: Smith is merely “player of the series”. He’s apparently not quite the man Jadeja is. Jadeja certainly shaded him for half-century celebrations with his sword-work.

“It was a maginficent series, and one of the best I’ve been part of so far,” the Aussie skipper says. “We played some good cricket in this series and had our opportunities at time... Credit to India for winning the series 2-1.”

“It was a fantastic learning curve. I think the way the guys were able to adapt and really challenge India in these conditions was terrific. I’m really proud of the way the boys competed in this series. I think that middle session where we lost 5-70...when you do that you’re going to put yourself behind the eight ball.”

“A lot of people wrote us off before we got here. They thought it was going to be a 4-0 whitewash. We probably let a few moments slip and you can’t do that against India... At times I’ve been in my own little bubble and let my emotions slip, so I apologise for that.”

Smith says it’s been a sharping learning curve for he and his side, but that he can’t fault their preparation or effort.

No word from Steve Smith just yet, but it can’t be far away. First we wait for a kind of ‘This is your Life’ starring every figure in Indian cricket. What happened to interviewing the losing captain first?

It comes from Robert McLiam Wilson, OBO favourite. He’s a bit full of himself, mind you. “It’s painful to admit it, as your regular ‘funny’ emailer (always a ready quip and a sick burn), but there’s no comedy here,” he writes. “Because this may well have been the perfect series. Stunning cricket. There wasn’t a bad quarter of an hour. Well done everyone (OBO included).” Cheers Bob.

“We wanted to win it 3-1,” says Pujara, not quite content with 2-1. “We are very happy. We wanted to be number one in the Test rankings and the way we’ve played has been fantastic.”

“I had to play the waiting game,” says Rahul. “A little disappointing that I couldn’t convert (from 50 to 100), but nothing else matters except the 2-1 win. We wanted to be standing behind that board saying ‘Champions’. I was telling myself to take a few hits for the team. The wicket was doing a bit. All I was doing was looking at the scoreboard and looking at how close we were to the target.” He adds that Rahane arrived at the wicket saying he’d attack the bowling. He was certainly true to his word.

Shastri asks Pujara if he’s due for a rest, but Rahul butts in with an answer. “You should ask Pujara’s wife whether she wants him to take a break. She’d be the best one to say.

It’s been a spiteful series at times, but also offered genuinely compelling cricket. On balance India deserve this 2-1 series win. When it’s mattered they’ve been that little bit better, and they took their opportunities when they came to recover from a 1-0 deficit early in the series. Three first-time Test venues perhaps brought Australia into the series more than they might have been at grounds more familiar to the Indian side, but in a difficult series for batsmen India’s were just that little bit better. How sad it is that it had to end.

India win the fourth Test and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2-1

They’ve done it. India have won back the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. It’s a disappointing moment for Australia, but there are handshakes all round after Rahul clips three runs through the leg side to bring up his half-century and win his side the game. It’s done. The Aussies were close, but no cigar.

Steve Smith decides against a comedy bowling change and continues with Lyon, so we’ll probably see a bit of nudging and nurdling until India reach their target. Lyon has an enthusiastic LBW shout against Rahane but Marais Erasmus turns it down and the ball tumbles away for four leg byes beyond a diving David Warner. As Lyon bowls his final delivery of the over India need four, but Rahane doesn’t chance his arm, so Rahul will have a chance to reach that sixth 50 of the tour.

One last roll of the dice for Steve O’Keefe, who has been a mostly solid and occasionally spectacular contributor for Australia on this tour. Rahane gives him slightly more deferential treatment than that meted out to Pat Cummins, but when the Indian skipper gets one down the leg side he feathers a glance down to the fence at fine leg. It’s all over bar the shouting in Dharamsala.

Ajinkya Rahane has blitzed the Australian bowling in a superb cameo innings to finish the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series. Photograph: Tsering Topgyal/AP

A rather beleaguered Nathan Lyon gets another over, and it’s a calm one compared to the pyrotechnics of the last, but Rahul gets a boundary with a more conventional stroke when he cuts hard forward of point. He’s within one blow of his sixth half-century of the series, which has been a mighty effort in a tough month for batsmen. Whatever the circumstances or conditions he’s stood tall for India.

Bang! Says Brett Lee: “What a ball!” (incorrect) “But what a shot!” (correct). Cummins sends down a 148kmph half-tracker and the Indian skipper belts it over cow corner with a mighty pull shot. Next up he shuffles down leg and absolutely creams another one over the ropes at deep extra cover. Oh boy, this is some kind of display from Ajinkya Rahane. He’s turned into Chris Lynn in the last few minutes. Virat Kohli – the man he replaced as leader for this game – has only lead by example with respect to his spiky persona. Rahane is doing it with his bat. His assault on Cummins suspended with a single, he looks around the arena and notes his side requires only 22 more to win. What a cameo this is turning into. Rahane is 29 from 16. Australia are cooked.

Nathan Lyon continues. He’s got a slip and a short leg for Rahul, so pursues a leg stump line. Rahul sneaks a single, but the bowling approach doesn’t change much, and Rahane also gets one to the leg side. An inside edge from Rahul as he drives brings leg gully David Warner into play, though not to the extent Lyon was hoping. This is slipping away from Australia as play stops for drinks.

Another direct hit from Maxwell but Rahul made his ground!

Glenn Maxwell strikes again! What a weapon he is for Australia patrolling thew inner ring. Another direct hit from him has KL Rahul in trouble at the non-striker’s end but the Indian batsman just made his ground. Not so good is a half-tracker outside the line of leg stump from Cummins, who is belted around the corner for another Ajinkya Rahane boundary. The Indian skipper has all the energy of this match coursing through him but he’s channelling it to his side’s advantage. This target is being whittled away rapidly.

Lyon has full control of his repertoire early in this spell but Rahane looks to get after him immediately, sweeping with intent to pick up a single. KL Rahul then gets luck, pushing forward hard and sending a thick but some would say controlled outside edge flying away through the vacant gully region for a boundary. Michael Clarke is still on about the number of men out on the boundary. He’s certainly not shy about criticising Steve Smith’s captaincy, which is welcome in these days of soft serve punditry.

Lokesh Rahul has been the mainstay of India’s batting in this series. Photograph: Tsering Topgyal/AP

Pat Cummins continues with three slips and a gully in place for Ajinkya Rahane, but they’re unlikely to come into play while he’s bowling half-volleys. The Indian skipper gets forward with a straight bat and hammers the Australian paceman down the ground with exquisite timing. That’s four, and so is the next delivery, to which he steps back smartly to pick off a lofted pull shot. That second delivery was 148kmph and he didn’t quite nail the shot, but it fizzes away to the fence.

“I’d like to see the tour post-mortem on Warner,” writes Ian Swan. “ His ‘away’ record doesn’t leave much room to manoeuvre. If he plays outside of Australia, then I think he needs to go down the list. And by several slots.” I’m not surehe’s the ideal man for Indian tours, Ian, but this was always among the problems of making him Test vice-captain. You can’t drop your 2IC for a big series like this. He’s a superstar at home. Away? Very much mortal.

Sheffield Shield final update: South Australia are 192-7 and Jon Holland has 5-49 from 17 potentially match-winning overs.

“What is going on out here?” asks Michael Clarke as Indian skipper Ajinkya Rahane gets off the mark with a single from the new bowler, Nathan Lyon. He refers not to the wicket-taking carnage of last over, but the fact Steve Smith has three men posted on the boundary. Everyone is a bit tense, it’s fair to say. Lyon beats the outside edge with a jaffa to finish his first over. People: breathe. I repeat: breathe.

WICKET! Pujara run out (Maxwell) 0 (India 46-2)

Chaos! Maxwell runs Pujara out with a direct hit! Oh my word, what were the batsmen thinking? Pujara bunts Cummins into the covers, where Maxwell is on his toes and moves in quickly, and after a mid-pitch stutter and conflicting calls, Pujara eventually agrees to run though. A problem there: he’s still only halfway down the pitch as Maxwell gathers, takes deliberate aim and throws down the stumps with an emphatic direct hit. Holy moly.

India’s Cheteshwar Pujara hears the death rattle after he was run out by Australia’s Glenn Maxwell. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

WICKET! Vijay c Wade b Cummins 8 (India 46-1)

Cummins gets the breakthrough! And it was a beauty – slightly short of a length, plenty of bounce and nipping away from Vijay, who was stuck on the crease and pushing forward with hard hands. Wade accepts the simple chance and things are now at least a little bit interesting. India require 60 runs to win and have nine wickets in hand.

Steve Smith has now seen the replay of last over’s non-appeal but for all his eye-rolling, it’s kind of his and his team’s job to be going up for half-chances at this point in the game. Adding insult to injury, Rahul rocks back to Hazlewood and creams a pull shot to the fence at deep mid wicket. An existential question re Australia’s missed chance: what is the point of Matthew Wade if not to go up maniacally for half-chances like that?

With the momentum ebbing away at O’Keefe’s end, the spinner is replaced by paceman Pat Cummins. That might have been the go from the start, to be honest. Immediately he gets a short one fizzing past Murali Vijay’s rib cage and Matthew Wade needs to scramble to his right to avoid any more byes. Singles come easily enough from there, and Vijay also unfurls a pretty cover drive for no run.

Shocker: replays show that the first delivery of this over – the one that speared down leg side – actually tickled Murali Vijay’s gloves. Wade put in half a shout was more concerned with juggling a difficult take, so nobody else bothered. Oh dear.

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KL Rahul hasn't got a big score in the series, but has looked India's best batsman. No longer all or nothing.

Mmmmm it’s crack time. Josh Hazlewood hits one now to send a horror delivery thumping into Lokesh Rahul’s thigh pad. Then the Australian paceman squares his man up beautifully with one that goes on straight. Rahul is neither forward nor back, but will have a couple of nasty bruises as a result of this spell. Hazlewood also sends a snorter of a short ball rearing up past the outside edge and shaping away towards first slip. Rahul does well just to survive this over. There is one game happening at this end of the ground and an entirely different one at the other.

Steve Smith doesn’t have many runs to play with but he’s prepared to give O’Keefe at least one more over, and Rahul makes the most of it by slashing a square drive to the boundary off the first delivery. The only helmeted player in danger here is Peter Handscomb at silly point, though not when Rahul forcefully sweeps another boundary through square leg. He might finish this off by drinks. His analysis this series: 64, 10, 90, 51, 67, 60, 29*

It’s no real fault of O’Keefe’s (I’m not even sure why he’s bowling) but you feel Hazlewood is the man here. He’s getting the ball to swing in late and appreciably to the right handers, so attacks their stumps constantly. When he drops short Rahul plays a risky late cut and bisects the men at gully and third slip perfectly to pick up another boundary. A pained Hazlewood throws his head back in frustration, and he’s even more shirty when Rahul bunts a quick single to cover from the next delivery. Ravi Shastri is positing the theory that Matt Renshaw “dropped” the Border-Gavaskar trophy, then has the temerity to wish him happy birthday. With friends like these...

Somewhat surprisingly it’s Steve O’Keefe pairing with the paceman from the pavilion end, and Rahul gets going by turning his first delivery to leg for a single. Vijay does similar, stroking an attractive drive to the man at long off. With Rahul on strike O’Keefe has a slip and a silly point, and also some sharp turn; so sharp he beats both Rahul’s edge and the gloves of a badly-positioned Matthew Wade to concede four byes. That was horrible keeping work by Wade. It’s only the second over of the day and he’s already hopping around to his left with his leg in the air, completely off balance. Don Tallon would turn in his grave.